Jonathan Haidt

As part of the Free Library’s annual book festival, hear a conversation with award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt as he discusses his new book The Righteous Mind. Best known for his book, The Happiness Hypothesis—a book Psychology Today called a “remedy for the modern glut of frivolous self-help literature”—Haidt possesses that fine ability of demystifying life in a way that even the saturnine can appreciate. Those closely following the “positive psychology” movement, of which Haidt is an active pundit, will find the talk especially illuminating. -Abigail Bruley